Hels

Ex-NHS, keen walker, lover of reality and Marmite.

[Hels @HelenSimpson4]

Tidying up my pinned tweet. Improved version:

Why is it acceptable for men who choose to ID as women to demand space segregated from men, but not for women to demand space segregated from men?

As smarter women than me have noted: being “kind” & misusing words helps no one.

[Michael Foran @michaelpforan]

The Scottish Court of Session has just ruled that providing multi-user unisex toilets in a primary school amounted to indirect sex discrimination against female pupils.

https://t.co/ulFHKebMK9

[Hels @HelenSimpson4]

@helensaxby11 Police reports are soon going to become “someone attacked someone, can the public please look out for them”.

[Elaine Miller | Venus Envy @GussieGrips]

31 victims of violence, each a terrible tragedy.

11 deaths is too high but falls far short of a genocide.

24% (ish) of perpetrators experienced prison onset gender dysphoria. Crikey.

[Frau Hallmackenreuter @FausFrau]

Hier die Begründung,
- warum es für "ungläubige" Frauen ein Schimpfwort ("TERF") gibt; aber nicht für Männer
- warum die "Akzeptanz" (der Glaube) von Frauen zu 100% verlangt wird, aber nur nachrangig von Männern
- warum es überwiegend Frauen sind, die vor Gericht gezerrt, bestraft, gecancelt, mundtot gemacht werden, wenn sie sich der Blasphemie schuldig machen

Saying the quiet part loud. Schwarz auf Weiß.

[Róisín Michaux @RoisinMichaux]

Another woman's job is being threatened over her gender critical views. This time, Agnes Wold in Sweden.

Agnes Wold is a much-loved public intellectual in Sweden who is known for her feminism, her level-headed response to the COVID lockdown hysteria (she’s a bacteriologist), and, more recently, for refusing to go along with the transgender dogma that has gripped Swedish bureaucratic, activist, media and political elites.

On 20 May, the Swedish parliament approved an amendment to the law that criminalises “psychological violence” and “coercion” relating to “gender identity or gender expression (such as conversion practices)”, among other things. It is widely understood to be Sweden’s version of a conversion therapy ban (a more explicit law is likely if the left coalition gets into power in September).

Speaking on a radio programme about the law, Wold told the host that she would take 4 years in prison— the penalty for trying to prevent someone from leaning into their opposite-sex, delusion — before she would allow the gender transition of a grandchild (hard agree).

This comment set off major drama, with one famous gay media guy calling her the Swedish equivalent to “old hag” or “old crone”. Specifically, he said “get rid of the old hag. It is unethical of Sveriges Radio to give her access to a microphone,” which is a way of saying she should be fired from her public radio job.

Many, many people have called for Agnes Wold to be fired throughout the trans-mania era, and a lot of them seemed to be hoping that this comment would be the final nail in her coffin. But the remarks seem to have the opposite effect. Not only did Swedish people get very offended by this little shithead calling their beloved based radio-granny an old hag, they started to ask questions about the law that she was criticising.

And that, boys and girls, is how the omerta on the trans mass derangement got partially lifted in Sweden, and suddenly everyone started to ask: wait, what? Some kids think they’re in the wrong body and you can go to jail for telling them to snap out of it? Yes, dear Swedes, that’s what’s happening. Welcome to the conversation. We’ve been expecting you.

As of writing, Wold still has not yet been fired.

[Helen Joyce @HJoyceGender]

One of the unsung tragedies of the state we're in is that serious, good-faith experts like Scott end up spending their precious time patiently trying to counter the foolishness and ignorance of far too many of those in public life, with little or no hope that they will be heeded

[Zachary Elliott @zaelefty]

This is a good teachable moment.

Sex chromosomes are not sexes. They hold the genes that determine our sex development path.

Confusing chromosomes for sexes is like confusing the ingredients of a cake for the cake itself.

[Graham Linehan @Glinner]

Look how desperate they are to shut the first speaker up

[Hels @HelenSimpson4]

An answer to this would be welcome @stellacreasy

[Akua Reindorf KC @akuareindorf]

In any event, the question remains: why stop the Code of Practice?

Is it because (1) you think it’s unlawful, or (2) you think the law is wrong?

If you think the Code is unlawful, how does it depart from the EqA2010?

If you think the law’s wrong, how do you want it changed?

[Hels @HelenSimpson4]

Another day with Labour politicking to thwart the law and the law being patiently explained to them.

I’d be more impressed if the Phillipsons and Creasys of this world just admitted they are happy to give away women’s rights and stopped hiding behind spurious process objections.

[Akua Reindorf KC @akuareindorf]

The negative SI process isn't being used just on this occasion for this Code of Practice. It’s the statutory process in ss.14(7)–(8) Equality Act 2006. And of course the Code itself isn’t a statutory instrument – it’s brought into force by an Order made under s.14(9)(b) EA2006.>

[Kim Shasby Jones @KimJonesICONS]

Must read details about what the women at San Jose State University were subjected to when a male athlete was allowed to join their women’s team.
It’s damning.
But it doesn’t even address that women were expected to undress and share beds with a man without their consent.
There were girls who lost their funding and girls who were hurt in practice. Others are scarred that they undressed in front of a man while their university facilitated it and did not give them a chance to say no.

[Hels @HelenSimpson4]

“I’m going to kill every girl and woman staff member I come across”

‘'m going to shoot and stab all your girls”

No mention of the girls & women threats were made against by police or reporters on a crime with a wholly misogynistic motive.

The trans aspect is hidden too.

[SEEN in Journalism @JournalismSEEN]

There’s something very, very deeply disturbing at the effort by the police and the collusion of the BBC and most outlets actively to minimise Rigby’s extreme and violent misogyny. ‘Girls’ schools’ could be in the headline. Those quotes from the threatening emails are highly newsworthy. His rage at ‘trans oppression’ is central to the story. The information contributes to pattern recognition and potential safety awareness for girls and women.

This is rewriting history to a frightening degree. It’s not enough that the police have omitted all reference to women and girls as victims in the sentencing update. No one is to be allowed to remember the ‘trans link’ and put it together with these crimes of female hatred.

Here’s the police update.

https://t.co/4FalUaE2X6

Here’s one half decent piece.

https://t.co/iE2M7Bl4v0

[Hels @HelenSimpson4]

@WRNWestLDN A great lineup!

Intelligence and good humour…better than television and far less narrow in thought.

[Women Won’t Wheesht @WWWheesht]

We are pleased to see this statement from @SlandMinster
It seems Canon Clare MacLaren overstepped & put Sunderland Minster in a legally untenable position.
Hopefully she will take some time to educate herself to ensure she doesn't become a liability again.
We hope that by stating they will "respect the rule of law" that they now provide women's lavatories free of men.

[For Women Scotland @ForWomenScot]

I really think that MPs should not lie about the difference between statutory guidance and law.

Or alternatively, they should not be so stupid that they fail to understand how legislation works.

[WRN Norfolk @WRNNorfolk]

Chief Constable Sanford ignores the fact that his female police officers and the women of this county have rights.

Neither men self-identifying into women's spaces & services nor men who claim the protected characteristic of gender reassignment override the rights of others.

Sanford must stop being frit of his transactivist staff and make Norfolk Police policies legal again.

[Emma Hilton @FondOfBeetles]

@ellaerislives @NChaleunphone @zaelefty Just fucking stop using people with DSDs as a shield. Stop. It’s grotesque. Stand on your own account.

[Cycleway, my arse! @issaddlethereis.bsky.social @IsSaddleThereIs]

Cyclists who drive are better behind the steering wheel than motorists, a new analysis has found! The link between cycling and safer motoring was revealed by a UK insurance firm which offers specialist motor insurance policies for cyclists. https://t.co/q2lSbXdh0o

[Hels @HelenSimpson4]

@MinnOrchia @lolathepug1 @stellacreasy It’s not an act it’s what you are.

[Hels @HelenSimpson4]

This seems to be an international problem with Pride organisers and acts in a way that it wasn’t when it was purely or primarily an LGB event or simply an LG event.

[Genevieve Gluck @WomenReadWomen]

Prominent German drag queen Mario Olszinski, aka Jurassica Parka, convicted of possessing child pornography in 2023, and now charged again.

After he was already convicted once, taxpayers footed his bill to go to Tokyo and play with children at a Pride event.

He was also named the "Queer Berlin" ambassador and featured in a July 2024 promotional video published by the government's Federal Ministry for Education, Family, Seniors, Women, and Youth.

The German government has since deleted this video.